Deuteronomy 18:6-8

Provision for Priests and Levites

6 "And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, s where he lives - and he may come when he desires 1 - t to the place that the Lord will choose, 7 and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, u like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord, 8 then he may have equal v portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony. 2

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 35:2 - 3
    Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.
    Judges 17:7
    Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
    Judges 19:1
    In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:5
    But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go.
  3. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 23:6
    And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
    2 Chronicles 31:2
    And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the Lord and to give thanks and praise.
  4. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 31:4
    And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the Lord.
    Nehemiah 12:44
    On that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.
    Nehemiah 12:47
    And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
    Nehemiah 13:10
    I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.
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